It’s the most… wonderful… time of the year! Giant Days 43 is out and it’s the Christmas issue. Obviously I can’t line Giant Days Christmas up with real Christmas because there are 18 monthly issues of Giant Days per in-story year. But this year it falls at the exact point that Sainsburys wheels out the big tins of Quality Street: slightly too early.

It’s another high-quality issue from your top team of me, MAX SARIN (art), WHITNEY COGAR (colours) and JIM CAMPBELL (letters).

PS there is more holiday-themed action at the end of next month with the 2018 HOLIDAY SPECIAL which I have written and drawn myself at great personal risk.

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:20:02

By Night 4 is out today!

BY NIGHT #4 is out today, so head to your local comic shop or get it on Comixology. While obviously I, as writer of the series, am unlikely to tell you it is terrible, I can assure you that this one features my best jokes and some genuine peril.

But that’s not all.

It also has a lot of references to the 1980s because that’s what people love now, the 1980s. Have you seen Stranger Things? The 1980s. My guarantee to you: after you’ve read BY NIGHT #4, you will find other entertainment properties’ 1980s references substandard. Let me know how you get on.

I am very proud of the work we are doing on By Night, here are the covers by Christine Larsen and myself. I’ll have packs of issues 1-4 (Jally and C-Larsen variants) for sale at Thought Bubble in Leeds this weekend.

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:27:38

Giant Days 42 & volume 8 out now!

Giant Days 42 is in shops today! With art by MAX SARIN & WHITNEY COGAR (colours), letters by JIM CAMPBELL, and written as ever, by me. This month, Esther deals with a lot of feelings. Also contains some hot Babylon 5 content. It’s back baby!!! In comic shops and available digitally from Comixology.

ALSO OUT: Giant Days volume 8, containing issues 33-36. Get it wherever books are sold, specifically Giant Days books. You probably can’t get it from the Christian bookshop or a shop that just sells Hanes Manuals.

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:33:49

By Night issue 3 is out today!

Bad Machinery/Scary Go Round remains in the wilderness, but fortunately, every month there is a comic written by myself to suspiciously similar specifications. So check out BY Night, expertly drawn by CHRISTINE LARSEN and superbly coloured by SARAH STERN!

This issue: Heather and Jane are missing on the other side of a portal, so sad dad Chip and beta-male Barney must form an alliance to locate them. But maybe they’ll find something else instead… friendship? Or something else that isn’t friendship, because frankly they’re not 100% compatible.

I should also add that this issue is the first EVER direct market title loaded with a baffling number of references to Quincy ME, a show that probably isn’t even in syndication any more.

Available - with a cover by Christine or a cover by me (John Allison) - in comic shops, or digitally via Comixology, I commend BY NIGHT #3 to the house.

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:36:23

Giant Days 41 is out today!

We’re into a run of GIant Days issues that I’m very proud of. The adjustments I made for the ladies’ final year of school are bedding in and Max Sarin is doing her best drawing yet, ably assisted by Whitney Cogar. So I present to you issue 41, which features not only SEXY Halloween costumes (the only kind now available), but also an Ubuntu-based mystery for the sleuths among you. You can get it in comic shops, via Amazon for Kindle, or on Comixology.